Last staged at the Liceu on 30 July 2007. First performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 16 October 1847. Premiered on 26 September 1831 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Libretto by Felice Romani based on the play by Alexandre Soumet. Opera opened its 92nd season with Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, Norma. Radvanovsky, who opened the Metropolitan Operas current season with a new Norma, heads to San Francisco to sing the role of Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux. It first came to the Liceu in 1847, not long after its official opening, and was, in fact, the third opera to be staged there. Though the first performance was a failure, Norma went on to become an established favourite. Norma is a classical heroine, passionate and revengeful, and her dilemma provides the starting point for the most successful work by the last and greatest composer of bel canto. But when she discovers she has a rival, jealousy sets in. In Roman-dominated Gaul, the high priestess Norma has broken her vow of chastity by entering a relationship with the Roman pro-consul Pollione and the birth of their two children has been kept secret. This production, by up-and-coming American stage director Kevin Newbury, stresses the ritual aspects of the drama. This was the fifth or sixth production of Norma Ive seen in San Francisco over the decades, starting with Rita Hunters, through several other starry evenings and down through the most recent previous assumption here, that of Carol Vaness. And rightly so, because in Norma Italian Romanticism reached its pinnacle. Norma at the San Francisco Opera (too old to reply) David Melnick 05:46:09 UTC. In 1995 she sang Brunnhilde in Die Walküre at the San Francisco Opera. That is what Richard Wagner said about Vincenzo Bellini’s most famous opera, which he considered the most perfect example of a musical tragedy. Following her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1993 as Donna Anna, she made first appearances at Milan’s La Scala as Brunnhilde in Die Walküre, the Seattle Opera as Norma, and the Opera de la Bastille in Paris as Amelia in 1994. If we weep from emotion on hearing it, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Recorded on February 14th and 17th, 2015 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain)
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